Kai Bosworth

Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair • Virginia Mercury Terry McAuliffe to promote natural gas as a route to long-term energy reliability as renewable energy sources are built out.

Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy

Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied

Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ

have you read Camille Robcis' book Disalienation? feel like it was a nice practical rescuscitation of the political ambition that flows from Tosquelles/Saint-Alban/the institutional more generally

i do wonder what is meant by "a psychiatry that existed only in terms of its integration with human geography" -- surely there is more there in human geography than the built environment -- were there interdisciplinary integrations too...?

at the time, this is a fairly important intervention -- Masson, the article later describes, also led the charge against the use of straitjackets on patients. but without knowing more, it also seems to presage stuff like eco-psychiatry, forest care, etc that can get a bit too naturalistic for me.

Women of the Collective — Parapraxis Care and politics around Saint-Alban Psychiatric Hospital: 1930–1960 Joana Masó TRANSLATED BY PERWANA NAZIF AND JESSE NEWBERG  

interesting history of practical attempts at "geo-psychiatry," as promoted by Agnès Masson briefly during a stint at Saint-Alban. here geo-psychiatry is described as "integration with human geography," though practically seems to just mean going outside.

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wom...

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ok krasznahorkai finally got me with the beekeeping eco marxist forest ranger lolol

They’ve Come to Free ‘the iPad Babies’

I find this simultaneously cringe and delightful

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

been thinking about this all day -- just a perfect example of the impossibility of liberal institutional neutrality! they called it antisemitism that so many companies operating in Israel kept popping up on the human rights filter - wonder why! and now Morningstar will no longer consult UN HRC 🤔

How a Giant of Responsible Investing Agreed to an Israel Exception After a multi-year campaign by Jewish groups, Morningstar—a major firm known for socially responsible investing—is softening its approach to Israeli human…

important context on Morningstar, whose "human rights" and other ESG screening tools are used on AAG investments

jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...

can't tell whether twitter or bluesky is more of a "dead internet" at this point. both seem to have just completely gutted any attempts at interaction, can't post anything that finds its audience.

unprompted Google chrome pop up asking if I want it to do my homework for me

Cesare Casarino makes this argument wrt how Spinoza uses and describes "concatenation"

best recent works in feminist STS?

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didn't USC already reject?

A Reflection on “Objective” Journalism From the Global Sumud Flotilla A so-called precept in the practice of news coverage is that “if it bleeds, it leads.” Well, apparently, if a Palestinian is bleeding, this isn’t true.

"There is no such thing as “professional neutrality.” Instead, there are those who know what they think by arriving at a critical—and self-critical—account of themselves and the world, and there are those who don’t bother doing this."

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

my usual strategy is to reach out, offer extra support / talk through it, let them know that I understand lots of things are happening and I don't need to know the details but want to support. hasn't really worked out with many of them...

sincere post -- does anyone have any tips for working with a specific kind of student who: is smart, comes to class, but has some kind of block that prevents them from doing assignments? often put too much pressure on themselves. i have encountered a few of these over the years, would love help

particularly beyond "real abstraction."

any major engagement with sohn-rethel in geography?

Freud, Slovenia, and the Origins of Right-Wing Populism - Notes - e-flux Mladen Dolar uncovers a series of curious historical encounters that set the stage for the world we know today.

"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules.

Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."

www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...

grading papers today and it's ai ai ai ai ai ai ai

i know Verso got screwed over by their distributor going bankrupt and there's also inflation etc...but i'm still having some sticker shock from $40-$50 price tags

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newly relevant footnote in here: "Krasznahorkai makes clear the schematics of a municipal coup by a power-thirsty Mrs. Eszter emergent in response to destructive street thuggery. The political-aesthetic form of her movement is not incidentally 'A TIDY YARD, AN ORDERLY HOUSE.'"

A View from Outside-In It is 1973, and Social Justice and the City had just been published by Edward Arnold in London. I was a student at the University of Vienna in the Geography and Urban Planning program my fellow studen...

really cool posts on the Verso blog from Eric Sheppard (last week) and Helga Leitner (below), on David Harvey's early work. wonder who they might have lined up for later books?

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...

Expertly gathered and edited by Chloe Ahmann and Zeynep Oguz, the entire issue is going to be worth reading and teaching. It'll be easy to read front to back in a future S&S issue, but for now check out the thread in the OP!